Plausible Analytics
99 · HealthyCookie-free, privacy-focused web analytics with a single-page dashboard.
Open source Analytics
Unleash
99 · HealthyFeature flag service for gradual rollouts, targeting rules and kill switches, with SDKs for most languages.
Apache Superset
97 · HealthyData exploration and dashboarding platform from the Apache Software Foundation.
Matomo
95 · HealthyLong-running web analytics platform with full data ownership and a plugin marketplace.
PostHog
94 · HealthyProduct analytics suite with event tracking, session replay, feature flags and experiments.
Lightdash
94 · HealthyBI tool that turns a dbt project into a semantic layer for self-serve dashboards.
OpenReplay
93 · HealthySession replay and product analytics you can run on your own infrastructure.
GrowthBook
91 · HealthyFeature flags and A/B testing that read experiment results straight from your own data warehouse.
Grafana
90 · HealthyDashboards and alerting over metrics, logs and traces from Prometheus, Loki, SQL databases and many other sources.
Deepnote
89 · HealthyData notebook for Python, SQL and R with interactive blocks, database connections and an AI assistant, runnable locally.
Metabase
88 · HealthyBusiness intelligence tool for asking questions of your database and sharing dashboards.
Evidence
85 · HealthyBuild reports and dashboards as code from SQL queries and Markdown, published as a fast static site.
Redash
78 · StableWrite SQL against dozens of data sources, then turn the results into charts, dashboards and scheduled alerts.
OpenPanel
78 · StableWeb and product analytics in one tool: page views, events, funnels, retention and user profiles.
Jitsu
77 · StableEvent collection pipeline that captures events from websites and apps and streams them to your warehouse and tools.
Umami
75 · StableSimple, privacy-friendly web analytics that runs on PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Swetrix
69 · StableCookie-free website analytics with built-in error tracking and page performance monitoring.
Rybbit
61 · StableCookie-free web analytics with real-time dashboards, funnels, goals, session replay and error tracking.
Aptabase
53 · CautionPrivacy-first usage analytics for mobile, desktop and web apps, with small SDKs and no personal data collected.
Source-available and unverified licenses
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PostHog
Product analytics suite with event tracking, session replay, feature flags and experiments.
Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 94/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free core, paid extras
MIT · open source (permissive)
Features compared
has,doesn't1 feature3 features
9/10 Google Analytics features free in PostHog
✕ doesn't have it · ◐ partly · $ higher plan or paid editionBoth have 9
Headline Google Analytics features on the Google Analytics 4 (standard) plan, and whether PostHog has each in its free, self-hosted edition.
| Feature | Google AnalyticsGoogle Analytics 4 (standard) plan | PostHog9 of 10 free |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics has, PostHog doesn't1 | ||
| Ecommerce and revenue | Included | PartlyRevenue from your own events |
| PostHog has, Google Analytics doesn't3 | ||
| No cookie banner needed | No | YesCookieless mode |
| Session replay | No | Yes |
| Heatmaps | No | Yes |
| Both have9 | ||
| Traffic and referral reports | Included | YesWeb analytics dashboard |
| Real-time view | Included | YesLive events |
| Custom events | Included | Yes |
| Goals and conversions | IncludedKey events | Yes |
| Funnels | IncludedExplorations | Yes |
| User journeys and paths | Included | Yes |
| Cohorts and retention | Included | Yes |
| Segments and audiences | Included | YesCohorts and filters |
| Reporting API | Included | Yes |
Sources
- Google Analytics, checked 2026-10-09: marketingplatform.google.com, support.google.com
- PostHog, checked 2026-10-09: posthog.com, posthog.com, posthog.com
Flat Rate Deploy
At 2,000,000 events a month, Mixpanel Growth costs about $280 a month. PostHog on OpenTools costs $99 a month, setup included, so you save $181 a month, about $6,516 over three years.
Monthly cost
- PostHog on OpenTools
- $99
- Mixpanel
$280
You save each month
$181/mo
65% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $6,516
- In year one
- $2,172
List price checked 8 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 94/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 37406 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight100/100
- Top contributor wrote 17% of the last 89 commits (past 12 months).
- 43 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight77/100
- 67% of all issues are closed (3739 open, 7611 closed) (62/100).
- 26 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (87/100).
License
Free core, paid extras
MIT · Open source (permissive)
What you need to do
The core is free to use. Enterprise features, kept in a separately licensed part of the code, need a paid license in production.
For PostHog
Everything outside ee/ is MIT. Code in ee/ needs a paid PostHog license.
MIT (core) + commercial ee/ directory · Open source (permissive). OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
License text checked 2026-10-07 · Read it
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 40k
- Forks
- 3.5k
- Commits, 12 mo
- 37k
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 50+
- last yesterday
- Contributors
- 391
- 43 in last 89 commits
- Open issues
- 3.7k
- 7.6k closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-08
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into PostHog and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more. 339 people have points on PostHog in all.
